Are you thinking about unusual Christmas gift? Adopt a tarsier in the Philippines! Julius and Nina are waiting for you in our centre in Bilar. The adoption is symbolic. Your contribution of 4 thousand CZK (150 euro) will be used to achieve goals of the project. As a reward you will receive a certificate, colourful picture of the...
The continuation of our educational programme „Ambassadors of tarsiers” took place in January. Our field assistants, Alex and Filip visited the same elementary schools in Owac and Yanaya, but this time performance involved older kids from 4th to 6th grades. After big success of the first part of the programme, the next challenge has arisen...
Are you thinking of a special Christmas gift? Adopt a Philippine tarsier! The adoption is symbolic. Your contribution of 4 thousand CZK (165 euro) will be used to achieve goals of the project. As a reward you will receive a certificate, colourful picture of the Philippine Tarsier, video and audio recordings directly from the field. A Christmas gift for you...
Recently I have come back from my last trip to the Philippines. The main purpose of this trip was to finalize developing of a breeding enclosure for tarsiers as a part of a complex tarsier conservation centre in Bilar on Bohol Island. As we believe starting of the breeding facility directly in the Philippines, in the local area, can...
Yesterday we have arrived to Bilar, the Tarsius project site and have met Cristy and the two volunteering guys Alex and Filip. Here you can read about experiences that a field assistant can have during fieldwork. „My name is Alexander, a 27-year old, recently graduated ethologist from the northern part of Europe, namely the country of Sweden....
On Monday I am going back to Bohol, after two and half year. In the meantime my colleague Cristy and volunteer field assistants Alex and Filip work on building of the tarsier conservation centre. Keep the fingers crossed that everything goes as planned. We will be back with more news in September.
A tarsier was recently found in Manila. Probably he was kept as a pet which is illegal but common practise in the Philippines. Unfortunatelly, animals kept in captivity do not survive long. Read more
A Philippine tarsier (Tarsius syrichta) chews a katydid under dim mesopic light conditions. A paper by Amanda D. Melin et al., in this issue of Proceedings B (http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2013.0189), raises the possibility that such conditions favoured the evolution of enlarged eyes and high-acuity trichromatic vision in the last common ancestor of crown tarsiers, a concept that challenges prevailing views...
Today, Dr. Lubomír Peške is heading to the Philippines to continue with activities of the Tarsius project on the Bohol Island. The Tarsius project focuses on conservation of the endangered Philippine tarsier and works in long term cooperation with the Embassy of Czech Republic in Manila. This year the project activities were also supported by...
Acoustic communication, that is how the tarsiers talk to each other, was one of the main goals of our research of the Philippine tarsiers living on Bohol Island. Tarsiers as nocturnal animals use especially olfactory and acoustic communication. Thanks to the huge eyes their vision is also very good. The Philippine tarsiers are quite solitary,...
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